The Judiciary has written to the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) seeking intervention on forgery of Chief Justice David Maraga’s signature.
The Chief Registrar of the Judiciary Anne Amadi asked Nairobi Central DCIO Samuel Kobina to hasten investigations citing a similar complaint had been submitted four months ago.
"Further to our letter to you dated April 13, 2018, on the above subject, the Judiciary regrets to note that this menace has continued unabated.
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"We hope you will expedite your investigations in order to bring the culprits to book in the shortest time possible," the letter addressed to Kobina read.
The cry for intervention follows a fake letter circulating online purportedly approved by Maraga.
The forged letter quoted the CJ declaring a go-slow by judges after budgetary cut by the Treasury.
It argued the officials were protesting budget cuts capping judiciary development expenditure at Sh50 million.
The judiciary dismissed the letter as mischievous, adding that the Communications Authority of Kenya, through the Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT), had also been asked to address the matter.
"The letter is fake and bears a forged signature of the Chief Justice. It is written on a letterhead that has clearly been created by the mischievous authors," Ms Amadi mentioned.
In the recent, Maraga has maintained the cuts will lead to the stalling of 70 projects and halt the plans to hire 9 Court of Appeal judges and largely affect the discharge of justice.
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